61660 steps, 36.99 km. Well, I was transferred this transfer and now I'm back in Campina Grande and my companion is Elder Cardoso. This past week was pretty chill. Not much happened (at least that I remember). We were really worried about the transfer. We both wanted to stay together but we knew we probably wouldn't. It was really annoying, last night, at 10:35 PM, the zone leaders called us to let us know about transfers. So I had no time to pack my bags. I had to wake up at 5:30 this morning to do my bags and then wait at the bus station for 2 hours waiting for my companion to go with me to CG, but then they told me he'd be there. So I went on the 2 hour bus ride and arried in CG. Then my companion actually wasn't there, so I had to wait even longer. We took our bags to the house and ate lunch. I'm whitewashing my 5th area (that's out of 6 total areas). I'm pretty sad to have to leave Elder Jones, he was a pretty fun companion. Well, I think that's about it. Merry Christmas to you all!
-Elder Michael Carlson
[Michael sent us a bit more information in another email]
[Did you get transferred or have any changes to the other companionship in your house?]
Yeah, the three other people of the house stayed but I left to Campina Grande again. I'm now in Catolé. My companion is Elder Cardoso, a Brazilian. The other two people in the house are Elder Kaiser and Elder Leavitt. Elder Leavitt got to the mission field yesterday. It's kind of bad but having a new Elder makes me feel a lot better about my Portuguese.
[What was a scripture message you shared recently?]
I shared a message about one of the wars in the BoM. It talks about one of the generals of the Lamanites, how he decided to attack Zarahemla itself, instead of taking out the surrounding cities first. Then he decides to take over all the other Nephite cities but gets destroyed by the Nephite armies because he gets really prideful. And I related that to our lives, how we see very prideful people who are breaking the commandments, and they're seemingly "winning" in life, getting good things, and then we see humble people who seem to be getting the bad things of life. And it's the same thing in the story. The good people had bad stuff happen to them at first and good stuff happened to the bad people. But then it changed. The bad people lost and the good triumphed. It's the same in real life. Good will always win and get the better reward in the end.
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